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Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide

You're reading from   Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide Deploy and manage XenServer in your enterprise to create, integrate, manage and automate a virtual datacenter quickly and easily with this book and ebook.

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Published in Jun 2012
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ISBN-13 9781849686167
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Daniele Tosatto is a Windows Infrastructure Architect specialized in Citrix and Microsoft technologies with 15 years of experience. He is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert, Microsoft Solutions Associate, and Citrix Certified Administrator. He has been working with Microsoft products since 2000 as a systems administrator. He currently works as a project manager for the Italian Citrix Platinum Partner in medium to large Citrix and virtualization projects.
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Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introducing XenServer Resource Pools FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing User Authentication 3. Managing Storage Repositories 4. Creating Virtual Machines 5. Managing Virtual Machines 6. Managing XenServer and Virtual Machine Memory 7. Managing XenServer Networking 8. Managing High Availability and Snapshots 9. Protecting and Monitoring XenServer Supported Guest Operating Systems and Virtual Machine Templates Applying Updates and Hotfixes Index

Storage in XenServer

Now that you have an overview of storage technologies and protocols, it is time to introduce the concepts related to storage objects and attributes in XenServer. Storage objects are the following:

  • Storage Repository (SR)

  • Virtual Disk Images (VDIs)

  • Physical Block Devices (PBDs)

  • Virtual Block Devices (VBDs)

The following figure shows you how the storage objects are presented and how they are related to each other:

Storage Repository (SR)

The main object in XenServer storage is the Storage Repository (SR). This term is used to identify a storage target used by XenServer to store Virtual Disk Images (VDIs), which is the object representing the virtual disk used by a virtual machine.

Generally, the target storage for an SR can be:

  • Local storage on the XenServer host: An LUN on an iSCSI SAN or an LUN on a Fibre Channel SAN.

  • Storage through a NetApp or Dell EqualLogic storage appliance: Network File Systems

You can find one or more of these Storage Repository types in a typical XenServer...

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Daniele Tosatto is a Windows Infrastructure Architect specialized in Citrix and Microsoft technologies with 15 years of experience. He is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert, Microsoft Solutions Associate, and Citrix Certified Administrator. He has been working with Microsoft products since 2000 as a systems administrator. He currently works as a project manager for the Italian Citrix Platinum Partner in medium to large Citrix and virtualization projects.
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